Cigar-band remover.



No. 773,856. PATENTED NOV. 1, 1904. W. B. DUNCAN, JR. CIGAR BANDREMOVER.

APPLICATION FILED JAN. 6. 1904.

Patented November 1, 1904.

PATENT EETcE.

IVILLIAM B. DUNCAN, JR, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

CIGAR-BAND REMOVER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 773,856, dated November1, 1904.

Application filed January 6, 1904. Serial No. 187,880. (No model.)

To (tZZ whom it mag concern.-

Be it known that I, WVILLIAM BUTLER DUN- CAN, J12, residing at New York,in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented certainnew and useful Improvements in Cigar-Band Removers, of which thefollowing is a full, clear, and exact description, such as will enableothers skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use thesame.

This invention relates to a paper or other kind of band used on a cigaron which the name of the brand of the cigar is commonly printed and tomeans for severing the band.

The object of my invention is to produce means which may be easily usedwithout abrading or injuring the cigar-wrapper and which will readilysever the band, so that the band may be removed from the cigar.

Other objects will appear from the hereinafter description.

It is a well-known fact to cigar smokers that most bands are placed oncigars so tightly that it is difficult to remove them. In attempting toremove the band with the fingernail or with the point of aknife itfrequently happens that the wrapper of the cigar is so punctured or tornas to injure the smoking quality of the cigar, if not to entirelydestroy it.

My invention consists in certain features of novelty hereinafterdescribed, and particularly pointed out in the claims.

The invention is illustrated in the annexed drawings, which forms a partof my application.

Referring to the drawings, Figure 1 is a side view of a cigarprovidedwith my improvement, and Fig. 2 is a cross-section of a cigar as showingthe wrapper and severing device thereon.

Similar letters of reference designate corresponding parts in bothviews.

The part marked A represents the cigar, and B the ordinary bandencircling the cigar.

G represents a thread, string, or cord under the band having the ends Cthereof projecting beyond the edges of the band brought together andtied into a knot C forming a loop. This loop can be readily taken holdof by the thumb and finger and by pulling on it the band will be readilysevered without marring the cigar-wrapper in the least. This severingdevice may be placed under the band after the band is put upon thecigar, or it may be put on the cigar at the'time that the wrapper isplaced thereon.

Having described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secureby Letters Patent, is

1. Thecombination with a cigar-band of a band-severing device looselyinterlinked with and entirely surrounding a portion of the band to besevered, normally lyingflat against the band and free to be raisedtherefrom, said link forming when raised a holding-loop extending fromthe junction of the device with the band.

2. In a cigar-band-severing device, a cigarband surrounding the cigar, astring loosely interlinked with and entirely surrounding a portion ofthe band, said string normally lying flat against the band and free tobe raised therefrom, the two ends of the string forming when heldtogether a holding-loop, as and for the purpose set forth.

3. A cigar, a band surrounding the cigar, a string underneath the bandhaving the ends thereof projecting beyond the edges of the band andsecured together to form a loop normally lying flat against the band andfree to be raised therefrom whereby upon raising and pulling on thestring or loop the band will be severed without marring the wrapper ofthe cigar.

In testimony whereof I afix my signature in the presence of twowitnesses.

WILLIAM B. DUNCAN, JR.

W'itnesses:

S. F. LYNCH, R. J. RENNEY.

